dual boot advice

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Man-wai Chang wrote:
>>>>> Not sure about in a dual booting situation, but I've always just disable the AHCI or set it to Legacy mode in the BIOS and have been able to boot XP fine. Â YMMV.
>>>> You should enable AHCI in XP then change the BIOS settings from IDE to
>>>> AHCI. AHCI has some good features, like NCQ and TRIM(?).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Does that mean that I /disable/ it to install XP on a SATA drive and
>>> then /enable/ after XP is installed?
>>
>> Yes, very much so.  You can't switch the controller type after any OS
>> is installed, or the OS will no longer boot.  This applies to both
>> Windows & Linux.
>
>
>
> OK, thanks.  That sounds like I must /keep/ the same AHCI status in BIOS
> during the XP install and /after/ the XP install upon boot, although all
> drives are using the SATA controller.  Correct?

right


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